SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order SC43CO25137663M?

$960K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Abt Global LLC, received $709.7K) across 15 payments from August 9, 2024 to December 15, 2025, charged to Los Angeles Housing / Outside Auditor.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $960K above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Outside Auditor

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

ENC FY 25 - ORIGINAL CONTRACT 960,000.00

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Order dated July 30, 2024.

Paid from

Accessible Housing Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: Los Angeles Housing

Paid to

Abt Global LLC$710K · 11 payments
Abt Associates Inc$250K · 4 payments

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1August 9, 2024July 25, 202415dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 05/25-06/28/24 ACHP$30,855
2September 23, 2024September 11, 202412dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 07/27-08/23/24 ACHP$70,285
3September 30, 2024August 20, 202441dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 06/29-07/26/24 ACHP$62,501
4November 4, 2024October 24, 202411dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 08/24-09/27/24 ACHP$86,671
5November 26, 2024November 19, 20247dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 09/28-10/25/24 ACHP$84,862
6December 16, 2024December 16, 20240dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 10/26-11/22/24 ACHP$80,807
7January 27, 2025January 14, 202513dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 11/23-12/27/24 ACHP$67,326
8March 28, 2025March 19, 20259dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 01/25-02/21/25 ACHP$57,063
9May 6, 2025April 24, 202512dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 02/22-03/28/25 ACHP, INV #28201-52$84,634
10June 2, 2025May 22, 202511dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 03//29-04/25/25 ACHP, INV #28201-53$47,408
11July 17, 2025July 16, 20251dJL: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 04/26-05/23/25 ACHP, INV #28201-54$90,203
12August 1, 2025July 28, 20254dRF: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 05/24-06/27/25 ACHP, INV #28201-55$65,864
13September 15, 2025September 3, 202512dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 06/28-07/25/25 ACHP, INV #28201-56$40,897
14November 3, 2025October 31, 20253dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 07/26-08/22/25 ACHP, INV #28201-57$58,303
15December 15, 2025December 9, 20256dKC: EXPERT AUDITOR SVC (LA AUDIT) 12/28-24-01/24/25 ACHP, INV #28201-50$32,320

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Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.